West Germany at the 1988 Summer Olympics

West Germany competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul under the IOC country code FRG (Federal Republic of Germany). It was the sixth time that West Germany participated separately from East Germany and seventeenth overall appearance at the Olympics for West German athletes.

Medals

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Gold

Matthias Baumann, Ralf Ehrenbrink, Klaus Erhorn, and Thies Kaspareit — Equestrian, Three-Day Event Team Competition
Ludger Beerbaum, Wolfgang Brinkmann, Dirk Hafemeister, and Franke Sloothaak — Equestrian, Jumping Team Competition
Nicole Uphoff — Equestrian, Dressage Individual Competition
Reiner Klimke, Ann-Kathrin Linsenhoff, Monica Theodorescu, and Nicole Uphoff — Equestrian, Dressage Team Competition
Arnd Schmitt — Fencing, Men's Épée Individual Competition
Anja Fichtel-Mauritz — Fencing, Women's Foil Individual Competition
Sabine Bau, Anja Fichtel-Mauritz, Zita-Eva Funkenhauser, Annette Klug, and Christiane Weber — Fencing, Women's Foil Team Competition
Thomas Domian, Armin Eichholz, Manfred Klein, Wolfgang Maennig, Matthias Mellinghaus, Thomas Möllenkamp, Bahne Rabe, Eckhardt Schultz, and Ansgar Wessling — Rowing, Men's Eights
Sylvia Sperber — Shooting, Women's Small-bore Rifle, Three Positions
Michael Gross — Swimming, Men's 200m Butterfly
Steffi Graf — Tennis, Women's Singles Competition

Silver

Dieter Baumann — Athletics, Men's 5000 metres
Bernd Gröne — Cycling, Men's Individual Road Race
Jutta Niehaus — Cycling, Women's Individual Road Race
Matthias Behr, Thomas Endres, Matthias Gey, Ulrich Schreck, and Thorsten Weidner — Fencing, Men's Foil Team Competition
Elmar Borrmann, Volker Fischer, Thomas Gerull, Alexander Pusch, and Arnd Schmitt — Fencing, Men's Épée Team Competition
Sabine Bau — Fencing, Women's Foil Individual Competition
Frank Wieneke — Judo, Men's Half Middleweight (78 kg)
Mark Meiling — Judo, Men's Half Heavyweight (95 kg)
Stefan Blöcher, Dirk Brinkmann, Thomas Brinkmann, Heiner Dopp, Hans-Henning Fastrich, Carsten Fischer, Tobias Frank, Volker Fried, Horst-Ulrich Hänel, Michael Hilgers, Andreas Keller, Michael Metz, Andreas Mollandin, Thomas Reck, Christian Schliemann, and Eckhard Schmidt-Opper — Field Hockey, Men's Team Competition
Peter Michael Kolbe — Rowing, Men's Single Sculls
Sylvia Sperber — Shooting, Women's Air Rifle
Stefan Pfeiffer — Swimming, Men's 1500m Freestyle
Manfred Nerlinger — Weightlifting, Men's Super Heavyweight
Gerhard Himmel — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Heavyweight

Bronze

Norbert Dobeleit, Edgar Itt, Ralf Lübke, and Jörg Vaihinger — Athletics, Men's 4x400m Relay
Rolf Danneberg — Athletics, Men's Discus Throw
Claudia Zaczkiewicz — Athletics, Women's 100m Hurdles
Reiner Gies — Boxing, Men's Light Welterweight
Robert Lechner — Cycling, Men's 1000m Time Trial
Christian Henn — Cycling, Men's Individual Road Race
Karsten Huck — Equestrian, Jumping Individual Competition
Zita-Eva Funkenhauser — Fencing, Women's Foil Individual Competition
Guido Grabow, Volker Grabow, Norbert Keßlau, and Jörg Puttlitz — Rowing, Men's Coxless Fours
Johann Riederer — Shooting, Men's Air Rifle
Uwe Kamps, Oliver Reck, Wolfgang Funkel, Roland Grahammer, Thomas Hörster, Gunnar Sauer, Michael Schulz, Rudi Bommer, Holger Fach, Gerhard Kleppinger, Armin Görtz, Thomas Hässler, Olaf Janssen, Christian Schreier, Ralf Sievers, Wolfram Wuttke, Jürgen Klinsmann, Fritz Walter, Frank Mill, and Karlheinz Riedle — Football (soccer), Men's Team Competition
Thomas Fahrner, Michael Gross, Rainer Henkel, and Erik Hochstein — Swimming, Men's 4x200m Freestyle Relay
Steffi Graf and Claudia Kohde-Kilsch — Tennis, Women's Doubles Competition
Peter Immesberger — Weightlifting, Men's First Heavyweight (100 kg)
Martin Zawieja — Weightlifting, Men's Super Heavyweight

Results by event

Archery

In West Germany's fourth archery competition, the six archers were not as successful as the German team had been four years earlier, but nevertheless qualified two individuals for the semifinals and ended up with 6th places in both the women's team and women's individual events.

Women's Individual Competition:

Claudia Kriz – Final (→ 6th place)
Christa Oeckl – Preliminary Round (→ 25th place)
Doris Haas – Preliminary Round (→ 32nd place)

Men's Individual Competition:

Detlef Kahlert – Semifinal (→ 12th place)
Manfred Barth – Preliminary Round (→ 54th place)
B. Schulkowski – Preliminary Round (→ 59th place)

Women's Team Competition:

Kriz, Oeckl, and Haas – Final (→ 6th place)

Men's Team Competition:

Kahlert, Barth, and Schulkowski – Preliminary Round (→ 18th place)

Football (soccer)

Preliminary Round (Group A)

West Germany – China 3-0
West Germany – Tunisia 4-1
West Germany – Sweden 1-2

Quarter Finals

West Germany – Zambia 4-0

Semi Finals

West Germany – Brazil 1-1 (Brazil won 3-2 in penalty shootout)

Bronze Medal Game

West Germany – Italy 3-0 (→ Bronze Medal)

Team Roster

Hockey

Men's Team Competition

Preliminary Round (Group B)

West Germany – Canada 3-1
West Germany – India 1-1
West Germany – Great Britain 2-1
West Germany – South Korea 1-0
West Germany – Soviet Union 6-0

Semi Finals

West Germany – Netherlands 2-1

Final

West Germany – Great Britain 1-3 (→ Silver Medal)

Team Roster

Head Coach: Klaus Kleiter

Women's Team Competition

Preliminary Round (Group B)

West Germany – South Korea 1-4
West Germany – Australia 0-1
West Germany – Canada 2-1

Classification Matches

5th-8th place: West Germany – United States 2-1
5th-6th place: West Germany – Canada 4-2 (→ Fifth place)

Team Roster

Head Coach: Wolfgang Strodter

Modern Pentathlon

Men's Individual Competition:

Marcus Marsollek – 4964 pts (→ 24th place)
Michael Zimmermann – 4782 pts (→ 41st place)
Dirk Knappheide – 4765 pts (→ 42nd place)

Men's Team Competition:

Marsollek, Zimmermann, and Knappheide – 14511 pts (→ 10th place)

Swimming

Men's 50m Freestyle

Frank Henter
1. Heat – 22.98
2. Final – 23.03 (→ 7th place)

Stephan Güsgen
1. Heat – 23.22
2. B-Final – 23.55 (→ 14th place)

Men's 100m Freestyle

Thomas Fahrner
1. Heat – 50.78
2. B-Final – 51.12 (→ 14th place)

Torsten Wiegel
1. Heat – 51.02 (→ did not advance, 19th place)

Men's 200m Freestyle

Michael Gross
1. Heat – 1:48.55
2. Final – 1:48.59 (→ 5th place)

Thomas Fahrner
1. Heat – 1:49.02
2. Final – 1:49.19 (→ 8th place)

Men's 400m Freestyle

Stefan Pfeiffer
1. Heat – 3:49.52
2. Final – 3:49.96 (→ 6th place)

Rainer Henkel
1. Heat – 3:51.50
2. B-Final – scratched (→ did not advance, no ranking)

Men's 1500m Freestyle

Stefan Pfeiffer
1. Heat – 15:07.85
2. Final – 15:02.69 (→ Silver Medal)

Rainer Henkel
1. Heat – 15:14.64
2. B-Final – 15:18.19 (→ 6th place)

Men's 100m Backstroke

Frank Hoffmeister
1. Heat – 56.19
2. Final – 56.19 (→ 7th place)

Jens-Peter Berndt
1. Heat – 57.08
2. Final – scratched (→ did not advance, no ranking)

Men's 200m Backstroke

Jens-Peter Berndt
1. Heat – 2:01.77
2. Final – 2:01.84 (→ 6th place)

Frank Hoffmeister
1. Heat – 2:03.34
2. B-Final – 2:01.65 (→ 9th place)

Men's 100m Breaststroke

Mark Warnecke
1. Heat – 1:03.56
2. B-Final – 1:03.40 (→ 11th place)

Alexander Mayer
1. Heat – 1:03.54
2. B-Final – 1:03.85 (→ 12th place)

Men's 200m Breaststroke

Mark Warnecke
1. Heat – 2:22.55 (→ did not advance, 31st place)

Hartmut Wedekind
1. Heat – 2:22.55 (→ did not advance, 31st place)

Men's 100m Butterfly

Michael Gross
1. Heat – 53.78
2. Final – 53.44 (→ 5th place)

Martin Herrmann
1. Heat – 55.20 (→ did not advance, 17th place)

Men's 200m Butterfly

Michael Gross
1. Heat – 1:58.09
2. Final – 1:56.94 (→ Gold Medal)

Martin Herrmann
1. Heat – 2:02.61 (→ did not advance, 21st place)

Men's 200m Individual Medley

Peter Bermel
1. Heat – 2:04.18
2. Final – 2:03.81 (→ 5th place)

Jens-Peter Berndt
1. Heat – 2:04.80
2. B-Final – 2:06.76 (→ 15th place)

Men's 400m Individual Medley

Jens-Peter Berndt
1. Heat – 4:20.93
2. Final – 4:21.71 (→ 6th place)

Peter Bermel
1. Heat – 4:22.78
2. Final – 4:24.02 (→ 8th place)

Men's 4x100m Freestyle Relay

Björn Zikarsky, Peter Sitt, Torsten Wiegel, and Thomas Fahrner
1. Heat – 3:23.19
Michael Gross, Thomas Fahrner, Björn Zikarsky, and Peter Sitt
1. Final – 3:21.65 (→ 6th place)

Men's 4x200m Freestyle Relay

Peter Sitt, Rainer Henkel, Stefan Pfeiffer, and Erik Hochstein
1. Heat – 7:19.38
Erik Hochstein, Thomas Fahrner, Rainer Henkel, and Michael Gross
1. Final – 7:14.35 (→ Bronze Medal)

Men's 4x100m Medley Relay

Frank Hoffmeister, Mark Warnecke, Michael Gross, and Björn Zikarsky
1. Heat – 3:44.72
Frank Hoffmeister, Alexander Mayer, Michael Gross, and Björn Zikarsky
1. Final – 3:42.98 (→ 4th place)

Women's 50m Freestyle

Marion Aizpors
1. Heat – 26.20
2. B-Final – 26.17 (→ 9th place)

Christiane Pielke
1. Heat – 26.33
2. B-Final – 26.22 (→ 10th place)

Women's 100m Freestyle

Christiane Pielke
1. Heat – 57.47 (→ did not advance, 19th place)

Katja Ziliox
1. Heat – 58.39 (→ did not advance, 31st place)

Women's 200m Freestyle

Stephanie Ortwig
1. Heat – 2:00.66
2. Final – 2:00.73 (→ 7th place)

Birgit Lohberg-Schulz
1. Heat – 2:02.77
2. B-Final – 2:02.32 (→ 15th place)

Women's 400m Freestyle

Stephanie Ortwig
1. Heat – 4:12.18
2. Final – 4:13.05 (→ 7th place)

Alexandra Russ
1. Heat – 4:18.67 (→ did not advance, 22nd place)

Women's 800m Freestyle

Stephanie Ortwig
1. Heat – 8:41.95 (→ did not advance, 16th place)

Alexandra Russ
1. Heat – 8:49.31 (→ did not advance, 17th place)

Women's 100m Backstroke

Marion Aizpors
1. Heat – 1:03.27
2. Final – 1:04.19 (→ 8th place)

Svenja Schlicht
1. Heat – 1:03.72
2. B-Final – 1:03.68 (→ 10th place)

Women's 200m Backstroke

Svenja Schlicht
1. Heat – 2:16.81
2. Final – 2:15.94 (→ 8th place)

Katja Zisiox
1. Heat – 2:26.25 (→ did not advance, 28th place)

Women's 100m Breaststroke

Britta Dahm
1. Heat – 1:12.98 (→ did not advance, 22nd place)

Women's 200m Breaststroke

Britta Dahm
1. Heat – 2:35.06 (→ did not advance, 17th place)

Heike Esser
1. Heat – 2:41.34 (→ did not advance, 34th place)

Women's 100m Butterfly

Gabi Rehaa
1. Heat – 1:02.27
2. B-Final – 1:02.63 (→ 15th place)

Ina Beyermann
1. Heat – 1:02.85 (→ did not advance, 19th place)

Women's 200m Butterfly

Ina Beyermann
1. Heat – 2:13.56
2. B-Final – 2:13.74 (→ 10th place)

Gabi Rehaa
1. Heat – 2:13.09
2. B-Final – 2:14.20 (→ 11th place)

Women's 200m Individual Medley

Birgit Lohberg-Schulz
1. Heat – 2:17.46
2. B-Final – 2:17.85 (→ 10th place)

Svenja Schlicht
1. Heat – 2:20.31 (→ did not advance, 18th place)

Women's 4x100m Freestyle Relay

Karin Seick, Christiane Pielke, Katja Ziliox, and Marion Aizpors
1. Heat – 3:48.03
Stephanie Ortwig, Marion Aizpors, Christiane Pielke, and Karin Seick
1. Final – 3:46.90 (→ 7th place)

Women's 400m Individual Medley

Birgit Lohberg-Schulz
1. Heat – 4:52.05
2. B-Final – 4:50.54 (→ 10th place)

Women's 4x100m Medley Relay

Svenja Schlicht, Britta Dahm, Gabi Rehaa, and Marion Aizpors
1. Heat – 4:13.19
2. Final – 4:12.89 (→ 7th place)

Tennis

Men's Singles Competition

Carl-Uwe Steeb
1. First round — Defeated Alexander Volkov (Soviet Union) 7-5 6-4 6-3
2. Second round — Defeated Wally Masur (Australia) 6-3 5-7 6-3 1-6 7-5
3. Third round — Defeated Anders Jarryd (Sweden) 2-6 7-5 6-3 7-5
4. Quarterfinals — Lost to Tim Mayotte (United States) 6-7 5-7 3-6

Eric Jelen
1. First round — Lost to Miloslav Mečíř (Czechoslovakia) 7-5 1-6 2-6 6-7

Water Polo

Men's Team Competition

Preliminary Round (Group A)

Defeated Australia (13-11)
Defeated France (10-9)
Defeated South Korea (18-2)
Defeated Italy (10-7)
Defeated Soviet Union (9-8)

Semi Finals

Lost to Yugoslavia (10-14)

Bronze Medal Match

Lost to Soviet Union (13-14) → 4th place

Team Roster

Head Coach: Nicola Firuio

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